OTTAWA — Canada’s first high-speed rail line will break even and won’t require public subsidies for its operations, according to new projections released exclusively to the Star, but the Crown corporation that will build it still can’t say when it will reach that milestone.

Alto, which is overseeing the project to build the high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City, will release the new projections on Thursday, revealing more about its economic assumptions as it moves ahead with a project estimated to cost between $60 billion and $90 billion.

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